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Thursday July 11 from 10am, a march is planned from Byron’s Railway Park to Dening Park, Main Beach, as part of Bundjalung cultural day. It runs until 2pm at the foreshore.
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Reports of the bleeding obvious: Illegal drug classifications are based on politics not science, says a Global Commission on Drug Policy report, released last week.
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In recognition of the oldest continuous culture on the planet, NAIDOC celebrations will be held next week, with a flag-raising ceremony
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‘Large-scale organised crime draped in nationalism’ is how former Greens MP Scott Ludlam described former Liberal MP Christopher Pyne’s immediate move from defence minister to defence lobbyist. Normalised cronyism is a cornerstone of fascist governments, but only those with ethical sensibilities care, right?
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Cuts to Sunday penalty rates have not created one new job or prompted business to give any extra hours to workers, the Council of Small Business Australia claimed back in April. Meanwhile, the largest corporation on the planet, Amazon, will pay $0 in taxes on $11.2b in profit for 2018. According to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP),
Monday July 8 from 10.30am at the Byron Shire Council Chambers. On Tuesday July 9 there will be a Arakwal NAIDOC film night held at the Byron Community Centre from 6pm. And on
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Congrats to Jodi McKay, who has been elected leader of NSW Labor. She’s a former journalist, according to her CV. That CV also includes her facing ICAC after allegedly being offered a bribe by developer Nathan Tinkler as MP. She refused, according to a 2014 ABC report, yet believes that as a result, senior Labor MPs at the time started a pamphlet smear campaign that she believes contributed to her then election loss.
it’s the second year running of Jeff Bezos’s company paying nothing, and has been possible thanks to Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). And now Liberal PM Morrison is about to push for the same type of tax break.
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Local luminary Kerry O’Brien received a standing ovation after being inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame. He called for real reconciliation with Australia’s Indigenous people as well as fighting for the ABC and fearless journalism. Kerry for PM!
What’s a collective noun for psychopaths? A G20 of course! Most psychopaths are men, and the hirsute bloke pictured in the white dress is a murderer, according to a recent UN report. So where are the sanctions against Saudi prince MBS? WaPo columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October and then dismembered with a bone saw. MBS’s lack of accountability is a reminder of how the elite have always murdered their dissenters throughout history. Those looking for solutions locally can attend the Wake Up Call event on Saturday July 13 at the Mullum Civic Hall from 1pm.
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Mayor of Party Town, Simon Richardson, copped flak again in public access at last week’s Council meeting (see page 1). He finally did the right thing later in the day and asked staff to complete a traffic assessment of Brunswick Heads. Regardless of the merits or otherwise of pay parking, waging unnecessary and idiotic wars against that chamber is one of many examples of how out of touch he and his faithful few are with their role and the community.
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